Reset: The Unauthorized Guide to Video Games

Reset: The Unauthorized Guide to Video Games

Documentary 2021

Available on Tubi TV

VICE News correspondent Dexter Thomas explores the video games that created the global phenomenon of gaming.

Documentary 2021

MA15+

Starring Dexter Thomas

EPISODE 1

Finish Him: A History Of Fighting Games

Dexter learns what makes the fighting game community so unique among other gamer groups; Dexter battles an FGC legend and talks to two up-and-comers looking to change the game.

21 min · 27 Aug 2021 MA15+
EPISODE 2

Preservation Or Emulation

Dexter unearths a lost successor to NBA Jam and plays it for the first time in 30 years; he meets the people dedicated to preserving video games and gaming culture.

21 min · 27 Aug 2021 M
EPISODE 3

War Games 1: How The Pentagon Games

The secret history of the relationship between the US military and the video game industry; Dexter tries a virtual reality treatment for veterans experiencing PTSD.

21 min · 27 Aug 2021 M
EPISODE 4

War Games 2: Recruiting An Army Of Fun

Investigates how the US Army use video games to recruit new soldiers; Dexter trains with the army eSports team at Fort Knox.

21 min · 27 Aug 2021 M
EPISODE 5

Fandom Vs Marketing: That Game Chose You

Dexter explores the rise of the `gamer bro' in the community and how Black fans of The Sims changed the game for everyone.

20 min · 27 Aug 2021 MA15+
EPISODE 6

Regulate This Or Regulate That

Dexter explores the history of regulation in gaming, including everything from Pong to Mortal Kombat.

21 min · 27 Aug 2021 MA15+

Dexter Thomas

Host
Michelle R. Carney

Producer

About

Reset: The Unauthorized Guide to Video Games

DOCUMENTARY

VICE News correspondent Dexter Thomas explores the video games that created the global phenomenon of gaming.

Information

Studio: Vice
Released: 2021
Rated: MA15+

Languages

Original Audio: English
Audio and Subtitles